The greedy trap and learning from mistakes

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 11-15

  Ginat, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pedagogy; Student errors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

GREEDY TRAP; INTUITION; PEDAGOGY; RIGOR; STUDENT ERRORS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0037673608     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/792548.611920     Document Type: Conference Paper

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